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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Installing WordPress Domain Names, Hosting, and WordPress

Posted by Jeffrey Korn
Jeffrey Korn
2,434 Points

I would like to use my server with godaddy. Is that an issue for these lessons?

I'm trying to do this right now and having a bit of trouble.

1 Answer

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Hi Jeffrey, are you asking if you can use your domain name with GoDaddy's hosting service? If so, I can help get you setup with that. It's a fairly easy process, just let me know. :smiley:

What you need to do first is setup the nameservers for your domain. Any additional information about where you're at will allow me to help you further.

Sometimes setting up Wordpress can be different depending on which hosting provider you're using. It seems GoDaddy has a simplified process of doing that, but see if you can check this part of their knowledge base to login to cPanel, so you can follow along with Zac.

Jeffrey Korn
Jeffrey Korn
2,434 Points

Hey Dustin, yea pretty much what i'm saying! I'm doing the wordpress track and want to be able to do the 5 minute wordpress setup. I was able to actually setup wordpress by installing it through the godaddy website.

Basically i'm having trouble with the 5 minute wordpress install... but since i did it through go daddy does it matter? If it does than i'd like to figure out how to make it work.

Jeffrey Korn
Jeffrey Korn
2,434 Points

So i already have a server and name setup. I want to build the wordpress site as a subsection, so it would be www.felixeloso.com/wordpresssite. Does that make sense?

Jeffrey Korn
Jeffrey Korn
2,434 Points

yup, so i actually already did this part. In the video tutorials on treehouse they show two ways to do it. So i was trying to find out how to do it the second way. The second way is using an ftp server and downloading wordpress manually.

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Jeffrey, I updated my answer above to reflect how to login into cPanel with GoDaddy. Let me know how that goes. Apparently, GoDaddy has more than one way to install Wordpress. They also also a variety of different hosting options, but I'm guessing you have a shared hosting account with them.